NEW YORK (AP) — Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Monday that he will not run for president as an independent, a move that would have roiled this year's already extraordinarily unpredictable presidential campaign.
The billionaire, who has spent months mulling an independent campaign, made his decision official through an editorial posted by BloombergView.com, one of his media company's websites.
BOSTON – In what one observer described as "the eruption, at long last, of the first-ever public debate about marijuana in Massachusetts," advocates for legalizing marijuana retail sales squared off Monday with law enforcement officials and lawmakers who oppose the move.
The Joint Committee on the Judiciary heard testimony on the statutory version (H 3932) of a ballot question advanced by the Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol to legalize and regulate the sale and use of marijuana that appears poised to go before voters in November.
